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Nutriset's scientific approach to developing nutritional solutions relies on partnerships with leading research institutions. This approach leads Nutriset to finance, through a donation of 300,000 Euros to the Charles Nicolle foundation, research work to better identify, in stituations of severe malnutrition, the links between gut-brain and muscles and a project likely to inform adjustments to the formulation of nutritional treatment solutions to improve the functionality of the intestinal barrier before the re-nutrition phase, and thus enhance the effectiveness of therapeutic treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition.
This donation by Nutriset will allow the Inserm Unit 1073 "Nutrition, inflammation and dysfunction of the brain-gut axis" led by Prof. Déchelotte, who is also Head of the nutrition department of the University Hospital of Rouen, to recruit two researchers in order to set up laboratory experiments specifically focusing on the development of animal models of malnutrition.
The announcement of this donation was made at the board of directors of the Charles Nicolle foundation, in the presence of Mamane Zeilani, Director of nutrition and external research at Nutriset.
"This partnership reflects the will of Nutriset to put research at the heart of our business, in a process of learning and continuous improvement, in order to serve nutritionists and humanitarian with innovative nutritional solutions developed scientifically," said Mamane Zeilani. "This research will ultimately help aid providers working in the field to improve their care practice with millions of malnourished children."
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and the road abandoned us.
led us to the village of Gümüslük.
pulled down, dark and silent.
The bridge over the river of forgetfulness, it was.
Now we will die forgotten.
Let's die then, and from this.
'La Guerra de los tontos' was first published in Beatriz Vignoli's collection Viernes, Bajolaluna, Buenos Aires, 2001.
This poem, along with 155 others by 97 Latin American poets, will be published in October 2016, in the anthology The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America, from Seren Books.
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Palestinian Economy – From Asymmetrical Dependency to Regional Cooperation?
State-building as an indigenous process in entities emerging from violent conflicts is a growing issue not only in conflict studies, but in Development policy and in Development Economics. There are a growing number of studies related to post-conflict scenarios. The situation in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) is hardly a "post-conflict" situation with a conflict sensitive economy and economic development. ➢ Recent articles on the Middle East & North Africa
By Dr. Sabine Hofmann
Paper for the International Symposium "The Transformation of Palestine: Palestine and the Palestinians 60 Years after the 'Nakba'", Berlin, March 8 and 9, 2010
Second Session "Domination and Deformation – Living under the Occupation"
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2. Periods of economic and political change
3. Determinants for Palestinian economic development
4. Outlook
State-building as an indigenous process in entities emerging from violent conflicts is a growing issue not only in conflict studies, but in Development policy and in Development Economics. There are a growing number of studies related to post-conflict scenarios, weak and fragile states. Studies often deal with theory and models, mainly as policy issue, and with institution-building as a technical subject, enriched with recommendations for external and internal actors, as well as for donors and international organizations.
According to ODI, basic lines in characterizing a development model over the last twenty years is "political liberalisation and the explicit promotion of democracy", "economic liberalisation towards a market-based economy", "state capacity-building" (Fritz/Menocal). Regarding the field of economy the international financiers IMF and World Bank are committed to promoting "macroeconomic stability and open-market economies", also in fragile and post-conflict states. They are in favour of property rights in financial issues, mainly in the government's financial policy. So "they advocate inflation and deficit reduction; international economic integration; improved tax collection systems and budgetary management; market liberalisation; and privatisation" (Fritz/Menocal), as it is postulated in the so called Washington Consensus (Rodrik).
Summarizing all these policies, recommendations and suggestion, the conclusion is, that a) there is a lack of order, b) there are still few experiences with real sustainable and successful outcomes, c) development circumstances in (post-)conflict entities are very different, d) there are more model reviews than positive examples, and e) a coherent state-building theory is still missed, as well as f) a "unique correspondence …between politics and outcomes" (Rodrik/Rosenzweig) is still missed and an open research question for further analyzing and comparing.
What we do find is a growing consensus that "in developing countries, emerging from violent conflict, sustainable and just peace must be consolidated on the basis of social and economic development, meeting the needs of the whole population" (GTZ). The question is 1. To connect peace and economy, 2. To connect economic reforms with social context and local knowledge (to put economic reforms in the social context), to prevent an imbalance, an uneven distribution of economic and political rights.
"Development" is a social process and covers and includes more than GDP and personal income growth, industrialisation and modernization. It is a process of extension of human freedom (Sen). These economic parameters are instruments, means to achieve freedom. Regarding Palestine, these questions are more than connected with each other.
The situation in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) is hardly a "post-conflict" situation with a conflict sensitive economy and economic development.
Considerations regarding interconnection of conflict and economic development raise two practical questions: Firstly: How did the conflict influence the economy in West Bank and Gaza Strip? Secondly, with regard to the state-building process as project: Is it politically realistic and economically practical to proclaim a separation of the Palestinian economy from Israel and an independent Palestinian economy, not least taking into consideration the global economic and technological processes?
Whether a "national economy as a pillar of a modern Palestinian state" as proclaimed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (2009) or Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' personal opening of the first Palestinian Investment Conference in Bethlehem in 2008 and his affirmation that economy is the path for peace (2008), whether an "economic peace" as suggested by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu (2008) or a "peace economy" to "economize politics" as propagated by Israeli President Shimon Peres (1994), either way: politicians lay emphasis on the economic aspects of Israeli-Palestinian settlement policy and its implications for conflict. For many decades, the economy has been a main aspect of the conflict. Up to the 1980s, researchers, dealing with Israeli-Palestinian relations, laid emphasis on politics, rather than on the economy or political economy. Nevertheless, analyzing the topics requires an interdisciplinary approach. So we shall focus not only on macroeconomic terms, but also on the political framework, and widen our perspective beyond the Palestinian economy to the Israeli economy and economic policy.
The Palestinian economic development is marked by natural conditions, such as a lack of raw materials and energy resources, water shortage, a small area and land suitable for agriculture cultivation, a low level of integration in regional markets, including the south-south-integration. During the last four decades of Israeli occupation system, West Bank and Gaza Strip economic base structures have been decisively characterized by a grown asymmetrical interdependence of Palestinian and Israeli economies and dependency (Sayigh), which influence the current economic restructuring process. Following the 1993 Declaration of Principles (DoP) and further statements and agreements, asymmetry and dependency have been partly eroded and partly modified, but not reversed and have an ambivalent impact on establishing Palestinian national economic system. Before looking to the current situation in WBGS, let's have a brief view back to the periods before the 1990s.
2. Periods of change
From the beginning, political, economical, and political-economic starting positions in West Bank, Gaza Strip, and in Israel differed from area to area. After founding the state in 1948, the Government of Israel (GoI) introduced a centralized, regulated and structured mixed economy. Its economic policy was oriented on western European modern societies, market economy and industrialization. Immigrants' social integration was fixed by extending the social net and employment systems and based on capital import. These investments mainly from West Germany and International Jewish organizations were channelled into the state sector and the Histadrut (union) sector. In the period of worldwide awaking national liberation movements, Israel was non-integrated in the Middle East, its natural regional market, but oriented to the industrial countries and world market competitiveness.
The WBGS's economic development has always been influenced by "seemingly endless political turbulence and human tragedy" (Abed). Until the war 1948-49, the West Bank was fully integrated in the Palestinian economy. As a result of the partition, West Bank business men lost important trade and industrial centres, a certain part of its market place for agricultural products and its access to the Mediterranean Sea. After the annexation by Jordan in 1951, the West Bank was "characterised by a large agricultural sector with a weak and underdeveloped industrial sector dominated by small-scale industry and handicrafts" (Mansour). At the same time, the Gaza Strip was governed by Egyptian military administration. The Gaza Strip's economy was "fragile" (Abu-Amr), offered a surplus of labour because of the Palestinian refugees' crowds and the economic infrastructure which was insufficiently developed. Besides public and private aid (rents), the economic main source of income was agriculture, mainly citrus fruits growing /cultivation. Workshops were part of the society, but without the following up of an outspoken interest policy of their own. Citrus industry expanded, mainly for Eastern European export demands, but almost no other industry developed. Because of the Gaza Strip's closed location, the preferred business field was commerce (Kimmerling/ Migdal; .
Summarizing, until 1967 the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in certain degrees became part of two different, less developed, traditional Middle Eastern economy national systems. Market relations were Middle East oriented, but neither Jordan for the West Bank nor Egypt for the Gaza Strip were interested in enforcing an outspoken economic development policy for these territories and societies.
After a decade of robust economic growth in the 1950s and 1960s, and the recession, Israeli government supported the national economy structural extension. The military export boycott against Israel was the final reason to transform the domestic military industry for national needs into an increased production for export as a value added addition, into profitable business by qualitative and quantitative improvement. While the orientation on high technology for security needs took place in Israeli companies, enterprises outsourced labour intensive civil production departments into Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
After the 1967 war the economic development in WBGS was determined by the Israeli occupation policy (Arnon 2007). The economic structure of the West Bank was different from that in the Gaza Strip, but both territories were characterized by less developed industry in family run firms and less expanded infrastructures, high natural resources import dependency, and high investment needs (Abu-Amr 1988).
In the early 1970s in the WBGS a period of economic growth took place, when not only the GNP, but also the GDP increased relatively quickly, followed by a recession in the 1980s because of the oil boom collapse and stagflation. The GNP per capita growth of 7.1 per cent in the 1970s and 1.1 per cent in the 1980s was higher than growth in the neighbouring Arab states (6.3 per cent and 0.3 per cent) (World Bank 1993). It was caused by two factors which are economically relevant until today.
On the one side, growth resulted from income from abroad, mainly remittances of Palestinian workers in the Gulf countries and in Israel, and from transfers from the Diaspora, Arab countries, and international aid institutions. These external resources were growing steadily. In 1987, one quarter of the WB and one third of the GS income resulted from transfer payments from abroad. Therefore, in the Palestinian national balance, the value of domestic economic activities in relation to income from external resources decreased. Following this, tax revenues decreased and Palestinian local authorities' expenditures for infrastructure and social purposes as well (Hamed/ Shaban). All in all, WBGS became more depended on non-domestic income.
On the other side, the GoI agreed to the extension of the Palestinian economy's branches in those it was interested in and that were compatible to the Israeli economy (Benvenisti 1986). But it did not intend to enforce a productive integration of the Palestinian territories. Israeli entrepreneurs outsourced labour intensive production processes. Hence, traditional Palestinian manufactories became subcontractors of Israeli companies, inter alias in textile and garment, food, and in leather production as well as shoe manufacturing. Palestinian shop holders opened up new service branches for Israeli companies, as for example car repair, garages and workshops for agricultural implements and tools. From the late 1960s until the late 1980s, the Israeli economy had become the most important labour market for Palestinian workers. In 1992 115,600 Palestinians earned their wages by working in Israel, encompassing a total of 36.6 per cent of Palestinian employees in the WBGS (for all statistics see CBS, EU, IMF, PCBS, PSE, PMA, UNRWA, UNSCO, World Bank publications). The Palestinian trade import from Israel was about US$1 billion per year, which was financed by the wages the Palestinian workers had earned in Israeli labour market. By introducing Dayan's open bridge-policy, the Israeli Military Authority permitted Palestinian exports to Jordan, but limited the transfer of Palestinian products into Israel. In 1986, one third of the Palestinian income resulted from economic activities with Israel, while Israeli income from trade with the Palestinian economy was three per cent (Kleiman). Through this "externalization" (Roy 1995) the OPT' economy was gradually integrated into the modern and technologically higher developed Israeli economic structures.
The outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, the Intifada, in December 1987, demonstrated that the dependency of the Palestinian economy from Israel has negative effects on the Israeli economy and society, which may not be a prime impediment, but nonetheless of significant character (Benvenisti 1987; Haile 1992; Kleiman 1993): In 1988 because of the Intifada, the Israeli economy sustained 1.9per cent of the GDP financial losses (Halevi 1993).
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the GoI modified its occupation policy taking into consideration the national economy's structural transformation and the conclusions of the so called Sadan Report. Thus, it endorsed investments into the industrial base and as an effort to create jobs, as well as to enforce a reduction of the OPT' dependence of the labour market and economy in Israel (UNCTAD 1993) and Israeli dependency from Palestinian labour inside Israeli territory. So GoI changed its policy and required every Palestinian seeking work inside Israel to be equipped with a permit. Authorities enforced this regulation increasingly strictly: since 1993, Israel introduced a "closure policy", roadblocks were set up on major transport arteries, denying entry into Israel from the OPT. Already in the early 1990s, the impact on the Palestinian economy was "devastating" (Arnon 2007), since Palestinians, working in Israel and their families were affected by the closure. Local employment was also affected, since domestic economy is depended on imports, imports from Israel and abroad, such as the imports of raw materials for local shops and manufacturing, for public and private service etc.
By signing the Declaration of Principles (DoP) in 1993 the GoI and the PLO accepted a restructuring of their political relationship in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. With the DoP, the Road Map, and the documents signed in the following years, both sides compromised on the option of two states. This understanding is the changing element, a "historic breakthrough" in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship (Golan 2007) and a move in the direction of establishing a Palestinian governmental system (Asseburg 2003).
For the economic field, in April 1994 both sides signed the Protocol on Economic Relations between the Government of Israel and the P.L.O., representing the Palestinian People, (PER). It is an economic regime for regulating economic and political economic issues. According to this Protocol, the Palestinian economy is not fully subject to Palestinian self-determination, both sides agree in main aspects to coordination, for example in trade. So the PER includes special lists for enforcing Palestinian trade with neighbouring Egypt and Jordan and extending regional trade relations. With the mechanism of regulated import tariffs for Israeli and Palestinian imports, both sides introduced a customs envelope. In labour market policy, they agreed to the "normality of movement of labour", with both sides' right "to determine from time to time the extent and conditions of labour movement into its area" (PER, Art. VII). The basic question is the economic link between the Israeli and the Palestinian economy, whether there exists a border between Israeli and Palestinian economy or not. The concept grounded on the assumption of openness and of no economic border. But reality of closure policy was different and "proved the architects of the protocol to fail" (Arnon 2002). So the PER modified, but did not change the economic regime radically.
Since signing the DoP by Abbas and Peres in September 1993, Palestinian state building process is characterized by different periods, which are marked by times of political progress and economic growth on the one side, and times of instability, stagnation and crises on the other. What is the situation since the early 1990s? What are the determinating factors?
Political Factors
Framework requirements for economic development in the PT are occupation, conflict, pre-statehood and lack of political sovereignty.
In September 1995, the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak declared the political conflict settlement goal is separation of Israel and Palestine. Even so in winter 1999 Prime Minister Ehud Barak approved of the complete separation between Israelis and Palestinians in all fields, including the economy. Already in 1993 the GoI initiated systematically gradual border closure as security strategy ("permanent closure", "comprehensive closure", "internal closure") and the growing cut out of East Jerusalem from the Palestinian economy. Adopting The Agreement of Movement and Access (2005) some improvement could temporarily be reached in the movement of people between Gaza and Egypt via the Rafah crossing. For movement of goods between the WB and the GS and Israel today's regime still lacks openness to trade. There is also no indication that a safe passage of persons, vehicles and goods between the WB and the GS, which was guaranteed under the Oslo Accords, would be reopened.
In the West Bank, the GoI has removed more than 150 roadblocks and checkpoints since April 2008. In autumn 2009, besides the West Bank barrier, there were still 613 Israeli roadblocks within the WB (World Bank 2010).
The territorial and security-political border-system between Israel and the PA and inside the Palestinian Territories (A, B, C-territories, roadblocks, West Bank separation system, Gaza closure) enforces a) an economic border system, b) complicates establishing indigenous Palestinian economic structures across the entire area (West Bank and Gaza Strip), and c) limits development initiatives, d) raises production coasts and reduces competitiveness (transport, logistics, back-to-back-system). So the macroeconomic development is unstable. The per capita income has steadily declined since its peak in 1999 to below its post-Oslo start value (World Bank 2009 and 2010). According to World Bank statistic, by 2002 real per capita income had fallen to two thirds its 1999 level and to US$ 1,020 in 2008 (World Bank 2010). Real GDP growth in 2009 was expected to increase to 5.5 per cent from about 2.25 per cent in 2008 (IMF 2009); this is higher than in Israel and all industrial countries. It was generated mainly in the Palestinian West Bank economy, where the real GDP growth is expected to have risen to 7 per cent. With almost different political circumstances after the war in 2008-09, IMF and World Bank expected an "up-turn" in the Gaza Strip economy from -5 per cent in 2008 to 0 per cent in 2009 (IMF 2009). A different picture of Palestinian economic trends: Economic recovery and business growth in the West Bank; stagnation, depression and missing a motivating private entrepreneurship in the Gaza Strip.
The second point is the state-building process and political circumstances for the economic development. For growth and development, a central role is assigned to governance and institutions. The Palestinian self-government succeeded in establishing basic structures of state-building and a prestate society (Asseburg 2002; Mukhimer 2005), but the Palestinian National Authority (PA) has not the sole right of disposition of natural resources and foreign relations, including that of foreign trade.
To encourage economic development and improve investment climate in the Palestinian Territories (PT), the PA is asked for a safe judicial environment, political stability, and economic predictability. In its economic policy, the PA focuses on neo-liberal concepts of market economy, private sector encouragement and new technologies. Also, especially after the war in Gaza, the inner-Palestinian separation and differentiation factors have again been enriched (ICG 2006, 2008).
Rentier Economy System
The Palestinian pre-state authorities and economic development (and policy) depend on foreign aid (Beck; UNSCO; Brynen).
From 1999 until 2008 external aid to the PT increased by over 600per cent to US$ 3.25 billion per year (DeVoir /Alaa Tartir). On the occasion of the international conference in Annapolis in November of 2007 the donor community comprising states and international organizations promised about US$ 7 billion to the PA, which was increased in 2008 in Sharm El-Sheikh by a further US$ 5.2 billion of unilateral transfer. These amounts are roughly as high as the PT's GDP, counting about US$ 6.64 billion in 2008. The EU is by far the largest donor; it contributes the highest sum to both the PA and the NGO sector, providing nearly 70per cent of the total funding for the latter. Aid from the Arab countries to the PT has decreased steadily in comparison to Western donors; aid from the US has also decreased steadily. All in all, this pledge is a unique amount for a single entity in the process of state-building in the Middle East. While the relevance of foreign aid as such is undisputed, it is firstly to ask for the transfers' aims in the face of the growing demand of emergency assistance (Keating/ Le More/ Lowe 2006); and it is secondly to take into account that relying on inflow of external resources is connected to conditionality, such as the Washington consensus, and limits the government's space of action, and thirdly, it is also common, that foreign aid should be a mean, an instrument for a certain period of economic development, but could hardly replace a healthy basis for a viable economy and state (Hanafi; Hanafi/ Tabar).
Economic transformation and asymmetrical economic interrelationship
Surveys and reports (UN, World Bank, IMF and EU) demonstrate that the economic structure is still unstable and lacks further improvements and modernization.
For a Palestinian economic recovery, reflecting on the Israeli market alone would be of limited success. Israeli economy has undergone a profound structural change toward higher value products and services. It is not dependent on the physical presence of a high number of Palestinian labours and the export into the PT. As a leading high techcountry with knowledge based production and development centre it is integrated into the world market. As the crises in 2000 and 2008/9 have demonstrated, Israeli economy is less vulnerable to political conflict influence.
According to Israeli data the number of employment permits approved for Palestinians reached 54.300 in September 2009, mainly for the construction sector. This number increased by 8.4 per cent compared with 2008, but decreased sharply to less than half the number of Palestinians, employed in the Israeli labour market in the early 1990s.This downturn firstly, declined the value of worker remittances transferred to the PT. Secondly, a growing number of workers seeking jobs had to be integrated into the PT economy. Missing an equivalent social security net, unemployment and underemployment is a crucial problem. In 2009, according to official data, the unemployment rate in the West Bank was 16 per cent, in the Gaza Strip 36 per cent (World Bank 2009), but the "real" unemployment might be higher.
The distribution of labour shows two tendencies: from 1997 to 2008 a relative decline of employment in construction sector from 18.2 to 10.8 per cent, and a reduction in the industrial sector from 16.4 to 12.1per cent. On the other side, the service sector and PA-sector employment increased from 27.9 to 38.2 per cent in WBGS, but in Gaza to 61.4 per cent (UNSCO 1999; World Bank-Checkpoints 2010).
For small countries, trade and an open economy is a prerequisite for economic and social progress, also for the Palestinian economy. According to Israeli data, the total value of Palestinian trade (exports and imports) in 2008 reached nearly US$4.3 billion (IMFA 2009). This sum is equivalent to 82 per cent of GDP and demonstrates the extent of dependency of the Palestinian economy on trade. The WBGS has always been reliant on trade with Israel in different perspectives (access to the Israeli market for exports and imports to and from Israel; for external trade access to Israeli ports, airports, and transfer feasibilities). Since the occupation in 1967, for more than three quarters of POT' exports and imports of goods and services the destination or source has been Israel (World Bank 2009).
As empirical studies show, there is a positive association between trade and growth (Harrison/ Rodriguez-Clare). Trade, diversification of trade relations and access to new markets will remain a central question for Palestinian economic development. Since the Palestinian economy is less integrated in regional markets and international markets Palestinian enterprises will have to expand their trade potential as well as potential market. The appropriate market and production segment could not only lay in the labour intensive production, rather in a knowledge intensive niche. Therefore, it is a longer process of extending and diversifying existing relations less by neglecting, but by improving relations with Israeli entrepreneurs.
Palestinian entrepreneurs direct fewer efforts to traditional, labour intensive industries of the socalled old-economy, like the Textile and Garment Sector, and more to knowledge intensive economic sectors of the industry and service branch. Hence, wealthy entrepreneurs' focus is not limited to the PT local market, but directed to the most profitable location and market. In the Palestinian-Israeli economic relationship structural changes have been taking place since the late 1980s. Following the political events, the structural asymmetrical interconnectedness of the Palestinian and Israeli economy still exists in basic economic issues (IMF 2005; UNSCO; Mukhimer 2005). But it has eroded and has generally lost intensity. Economically relevant political and security policy factors are becoming more and more important.
Transnationalization in the economy vs. nationalization and state-building in politics
The economic weakening of the central political actor in the PT enhances the appearance of business actors, primarily the call for the private sector to enforce growth and development (World Bank 2007; UNDP 2005).
In the case of a central power move, they compete to fill the gap of eroded political authority by traditional structures, like clans and family politics (ICG 2007) and succeed in emerging in an increasingly structured manner. Within all these changes, a (process of) differentiation inside the societies took place. Therefore, separated Palestinian partial-societies and partial-economies in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip have increased, since the fourth quarter of 2000. While the natural circumstances make a strong argument for the opening of the market, political reasons for market separation prevail (Arnon/ Spivak/ Sussman 2003). Leading entrepreneurs no longer aspire to a closed national market, but rather business connections and liberal competition, including their Israeli neighbour (Bouillon; Ben Porat).
By announcing and heading investment conferences the PA signalises a direct commitment of the Palestinian government to national institutions for securing international encouragement in the Palestinian economy. So in May 2008 the premier Investment Conference in Bethlehem was followed up with a London Investment Conference for Palestinian businesses and in 2009 by an Investment conference in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The next event is planned for June 2010 in Bethlehem. These conferences should open doors to forge genuine partnerships and expand trading opportunities and bring together Palestinian enterprises with international and regional companies and potential investors, not least from the Diaspora.
After the experiences of the Israeli-Palestinian regulation process since 1993, these events are not undisputed. Estimations vary from "events for elitists groups" to "empowerment for the Palestinian economy". It is less a new tendency, but more an open tendency: economic reform and modernization are taking place inside the Palestinian Territories, from "old economy" to "new economy", from labour intensive to knowledge intensive, to the "web economy". The World Bank praised the web-economy as appropriate for the PT. Economic activities could "shift at will to any location", and "no matter where the resources are located" would be for the Palestinian economy an advantage (World Bank 2000). Until now, the internet based economy in the PT took an enormous growth. PA institutions, international organizations, parts of the private sector and the business community consider the web economy, mainly the ICT sector, as "essential" for the PT and driving force in Palestinian economic development (Expotech 2009). According to Palestinian news the ICT sector contributes about 10-12 per cent of GDP with a market size of around US$500 million and is ready to further expand to penetrate regional and international markets, crossing the "Green Line" between Israel and the Palestinian Territories (Expotech, PITA). The ICT sector opens up huge economic opportunities, but adoption of ICTs alone would not promote growth and development unless there is the "right atmosphere" (PCBS 2007).
As the interconnection of politics and economy have shown it is difficult to identify the one or a static model and strategy to transform a "conflict sensitive economic development" into a "viable economy". Political circumstances are still the basic prerequisite. Every economic strategy has to take into consideration the topics of the Middle East conflict system. It goes without saying that economic recovery in the Palestinian economy has also regional and international dimensions.
While a stringent territorial separation between Israel and the PT and inside between WB and GS is under way, the economic sector witnesses a transformation process which is not as rigid. It is still an undisputed question, whether it is an imperative factor for an integrative direction of development or for a disintegrative development. Since the 1980s, institutions and experts have developed various models for Israeli-Palestinian bilateral relations in the main areas of economic and political-economic subjects. Core questions are the general economic relationship between the WBGS and Israel, and the economic policy. Economists' options are generally based on two models of relationship with open borders or closed borders: a) transnational connected economies, or b) disconnected, separated economies.
The program "Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State", which was presented by Prime Minister Fayyad in August 2009 as well as the PNA's "Priority Interventions for 2010", published in January 2010 stay in line with a "West Bank First" option. These political declarations are backed by the international donors UN, US, EU as well as Arab States. As such, it is a first step, a strategy for two to four years. For a viable economy and sustainable development it has to be set in the social context of the Palestinian society in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Finally, I want to outline some questions and challenges with focus on the economic subject:
Reviewing the Israeli-Palestinian economic regime, most of all PER,
Checking non-tariff barriers, such as the transfer routes via Allenby Bridge, Rafah, Port of Ashdod etc.,
Extending the Palestinian-Israeli Joint Economic Committee's activity,
Participating in common initiatives with Israel, such as in Africa
Improving of Palestinian institution-building to enhance authorities' reliability and accountability,
Refreshing Middle East trade relations, regional cooperation and market integration,
Initiating contacts and relations to potential new partners outside the region, such as in Europe, South-Asia and Central Asia,
Enforcing high value products and services in economic niches,
Establishing a diversified technology strategy for clean technology, middle technology innovative industry and service development (such as ICT sector), not least for further adaptation,
Updating traditional economic branches, like Textile and Garment sector,
Preventing Brain Drain, focussing on Brain Gain,
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Liberal Democrat donors facing Rolls-Royce bribery probe
By Zoe Conway
duration 14 February 2014
image captionRolls-Royce, the world's second-largest engine manufacturer, is under investigation by the SFO
Two top Liberal Democrat donors have been questioned in connection with an investigation into allegations of bribery at Rolls-Royce.
Sudhir Choudhrie and his son Bhanu were arrested on Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of bribery in Indonesia and China.
The Choudhrie family and their businesses have donated more than £1.5m to the Liberal Democrats since 2004.
The men, who have been bailed without conditions, deny the allegations.
They were arrested as part of the serious fraud office's investigation into allegations of bribery in Asia by Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for military and commercial jets and ships
The Liberal Democrats confirmed they are aware of the SFO's investigation but say that whilst it is ongoing they cannot comment.
The Choudhrie family businesses, C&C Alpha Group, C&C Business Solutions & Alpha Healthcare, have donated more than £1.3m over the last 10 years.
This included donations in 2010, the general election year, totalling £415,000, which accounted for 8.5% of all the donations the Liberal Democrats received that year.
Sudhir Choudhrie and Bhuna Choudhrie have personally given £185,000 to the party since 2004.
Sudhir Choudhrie, 65, who is originally from India, lives in London and is reported to have arrived in the UK 10 years ago.
Home Secretary Theresa May presented him with a lifetime achievement award at the Asian Business awards in March last year.
In an interview after the ceremony, he said the secret of his success was ''hard work and nothing else but hard work''.
The family's portfolio of companies include businesses that specialise in providing services for the elderly and mentally ill.
The parent company of Alpha Hospitals Ltd is Harberry Investments which is registered in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven.
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Hapoel Jerusalem Football Club (, Mo'adon Kaduregel Hapoel Yerushalayim) is a professional football club based in Jerusalem, Israel. It plays in the Israeli Premier League, the top flight of Israeli football. Founded in 1926, their home ground is the Teddy Stadium.

As a protest against the conduct of the club's owners since the 1990s, the Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem football club was established in 2007, the first football club in Israel owned by its fans. The club was named after Katamon Stadium, which was formerly used by Hapoel Jerusalem. The club existed in parallel with Hapoel Jerusalem for 12 years.

In 2019, Hapoel Jerusalem was disbanded and in August 2020, Hapoel Katamon acquired the rights to the name Hapoel Jerusalem and officially became Hapoel Jerusalem. Since then, the club is owned by its fans and is managed by a board of seven members.

The team's record achievement is winning the State Cup and third place in the First League in 1973.

History

Hapoel Jerusalem Club was established in 1926 and played in the inaugural season of the EIFA league, playing the league's first match against local rivals Maccabi Hasmonean Jerusalem. The club played in the league for its first three seasons, however, the club was restricted to playing mainly in the Jerusalem area due to travelling difficulties. The club participated occasionally in the Palestine Cup, reaching the cup final in 1943, losing to a team from the Royal Artillery 1–7.

After the establishment of Israel, the club registered to play in the makeshift second-tier league, Liga Meuhedet, in the Jerusalem-Central division, which the club won. The club continued to play in the second division (Liga Bet until 1956 and Liga Alef afterwards), until it was promoted to the top division at the end of the 1956–57 season, after finishing second in promotion play-offs. Following the promotion, the club stayed in the top division for 21 seasons, achieving its best position, 3rd, in 1972–73. In 1971–72 the club reached the State Cup final, losing to Hapoel Tel Aviv 0–1. A season later, the club reached the cup final again, this time winning the cup.

The club was relegated to the second division in 1979, but bounced back the following season. The club continued to yo-yo between the two top divisions in the following seasons, playing his last season at the top division in 1999–2000. In 1998, the club reached its fourth cup final, but lost to Maccabi Haifa in extra time.

In the early 1990s, the club was transferred to businessmen Yossi Sassi and Victor Yona. The two ran the team together until falling out, leading to a long business and legal dispute which lasted until 2009, when Yona left the club. During the dispute, a group of supporters, tired of the feuding between the two businessmen, decided to establish a group, first in an attempt to purchase control of the club, and then in a bid to establish a fan-owned club, Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem. The fan-based club was established in 2009 (after a short period of existence as a merged club with Hapoel Mevaseret Zion) and progressed to the Liga Leumit in 2013–14, where the two clubs met for the first time.

The club played in the third tier Liga Aleph after being relegated from the second tier Liga Leumit in the 2016–17. On 26 August 2019 the Israeli Football Federation refused to list the club for 2019–20 season due to financial problems.

On August 9, 2020, the club has been officially recreated, as Hapoel Katamon renamed to Hapoel Jerusalem.

On April 30, 2021, Hapoel Jerusalem won against Sektzia Nes Ziona, thereby securing promotion to the top flight, after an absence of 21 years from the top flight.

Stadiums
Since the establishment of Israel, the club played in three stadiums, YMCA stadium, in which the club played between 1949 and 1955, when the club moved to its own Katamon Stadium, in the neighborhood of Katamon. Katamon Stadium was razed in 1982, with the intention to build a bigger modern stadium in its place, and in the meantime the club returned to play in YMCA stadium. The new stadium in Katamon was never built, and instead Teddy Stadium was built in the Malha neighborhood, to which the club moved in 1992.

Support
During the early years, support of the club came mostly from the labour organizations in Israel. City rivals Beitar were identified with the right-wing nationalist organizations. All this played out to create the Jerusalem derby. To this day the rivalry exists, though it is not nearly as heated as when both clubs played in the top division of Israeli football. In 2007 a large majority of fans, unhappy with the management of the club, defected and founded Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem F.C., the first fully fan-owned club in the country.

Current squad

Former players
 Hapoel Jerusalem (1926–2019)
  Viktor Paço
  Matías Martín
  Shay Aharon
  Zahi Armeli
  Ofir Azu
  Jacob Buzaglo
  Eli Ben Rimoz
  Rafi Cohen (born 1965)
  Dudu Dahan
  Michele Dayan
  Ehud Kachila
  Zion Marili
  Moti Ohayon
  Dan Roman
  Liran Strauber
  Nahum Ta-Shma
  Idan Tal
  Assi Tubi

 Hapoel Katamon (2007–2020)
  Shay Aharon
  Aviram Baruchyan
  Idan Shemesh

Coaching staff

Honours

League

Cups

Other titles

External links

References

Jerusalem
Football
Association football clubs established in 1926
1926 establishments in Mandatory Palestine

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Seventh Row Editors / September 29, 2020
Ep. 59: A look back at TIFF 2020, part 2
In part two of our podcast discussion of TIFF 2020, we go behind the scenes at TIFF and discuss films like One Night in Miami and Pieces of A Woman, plus some of the best and worst films of the festival.
This episodes is a Seventh Row members exclusive, as are all episodes older than six months. Click here to become a member.
This podcast episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and special guest (and contributing writer to our books) Angelo Muredda.
We went deep on what it was like to cover the festival as press, how TIFF mishandled its media accreditation process and general festival accessibility this year, and our disappointments with the festival.
On this episode of the podcast, we also talked about buzzed-about films like One Night in Miami and Pieces of a Woman, as well as a handful of other films.
You can read Angelo Muredda's essay on Portrait of a Lady on Fire in our Céline Sciamma ebook Portraits of resistance, and his essay on Wendy & Lucy in our Kelly Reichardt ebook Roads to nowhere.
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One Night in Miami (Regina King)
The cast of One Night in Miami give four of the best performances of TIFF '20. Alex Heeney and Orla Smith discuss their mixed feelings about One Night in Miami on this TIFF 2020 podcast. Image courtesy of TIFF.
Regina King's feature directorial debut, One Night in Miami, premiered at Venice before screening at TIFF to much acclaim. The film won 2nd place for the TIFF 2020 Audience Award, and we discussed why we liked One Night in Miami, despite its flaws, on the podcast.
"Regina King's first feature is a showcase for Kingsley Ben-Adir (playing Malcolm X), Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke), Eli Goree (Cassius Clay), and Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown). The film, which is based on a play, takes place mostly in a hotel room where all four men celebrate Clay's win (this is just before he changed his name to Muhammad Ali) and eventually come to heads over their conflicting approaches to activism." – Orla Smith
Amazon has distribution rights for the film though a date has yet to be announced.
We named all four of the stars of One Night in Miami as among the best performances at TIFF 2020 and discussed why we loved their performances on the podcast.
Read Orla Smith on the film's central performances in One Night Miami, among the best at TIFF 2020, here.
Leslie Odom Jr. was also on our list of the most exciting emerging actors at the festival. Find out why here.
Pieces of a Woman (Kornél Mundruczó)
Vanessa Kirby stars in Pieces of A Woman, one of the films discussed on this episode of our TIFF 2020 podcast. We named her performance one of the best at TIFF 2020.
Orla Smith and Alex Heeney shared their thoughts on Pieces of a Woman at TIFF 2020 on the podcast. The film also premiered at Venice where star Vanessa Kirby won the Best Actress Award for her impressive, visceral performance: one of our favourites of the festival. The film is less successful: the story of a husband and wife who lose their baby shortly after childbirth, and then grow apart as they cope with their grief and a court case against their midwife (played by Molly Parker, another favourite performance of the festival). The leads give compelling performances in a film that gets lost after its terrific 20-minute birthing scene which opens the film.
The film will be distributed by Mongrel Media in Canada, and has been picked up by Netflix in the rest of the world. We discussed on the podcast why you should expect an Oscar campaign for Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman.
On the podcast, we discussed what makes Vanessa Kirby's and Molly Parker's performances in TIFF 2020 film Pieces of a Woman so excellent.
Read Alex Heeney on Vanessa Kirby and Orla Smith on Molly Parker in our list of the best performances of TIFF
Vanessa Kirby was also on our list of the most exciting emerging actors at the festival. Find out why we loved Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of A Woman at TIFF 2020 here.
Read our interview with Kornél Mundruczó on his earlier film, White God.
American Utopia (Spike Lee)
Still from American Utopia at TIFF 2020 which we discussed on the podcast.
Angelo Muredda caught the much buzzed about David Byrne concert documentary, though was less enthusiastic about it than many. The film will be available on HBO this month after its play at the New York Film Festival.
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
Frederick Wiseman has been a longtime favourite at Seventh Row. Our interviews with Wiseman on National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Ex Libris have been published in our ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol.1 . We also talked to Wiseman about his previous doc, Monrovia, Indiana. Watch for a podcast in which we go deep on City Hall closer to its US release in November.
At TIFF, Angelo Muredda caught City Hall, Wiseman's 4.5-hour documentary about the inner workings of Boston's City Hall, and named it his favourite film of the festival.
Get our ebook In Their Own Words: Documentary Masters Vol. 1
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
Another Round was one of our 16 favourite films at TIFF 2020.
"Another Round, or as my friend, fellow film critic Andrew Pope, calls it "Thomas Vinterberg's Are Men OK?." The answer this film gives is, very firmly, no. The four main characters, all school teachers, play out what they call a 'social experiment' — maintain a constant 0.05% blood-alcohol content and see if it improves their lives — which is really a very thinly veiled cry for help. Vinterberg's film is funny and even contains some slapstick bits, like Mads Mikkelsen walking straight into a wall. But it's also a deeply empathetic portrait of masculinity in crisis and how alcohol, while sometimes joyous, can become an unhealthy outlet for depression and pain. And what's more, Mikkelsen gives a top form performance featuring everything from gentle crying to jazz ballet." – Orla Smith
The film will be doing the fall festival circuit, and is currently screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival and Calgary International Film Festival in Canada.
Spring Blossom (Suzanne Lindon)
The directorial debut of Suzanne Lindon (daughter of French actors Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain) is a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old girl (played by Lindon) who develops feelings for a thirtysomething actor (Arnaud Valois) who works at the local theatre. The film was most noteworthy to us for its one excellent dance scene — though we disliked many of its others.
New Order (Michel Franco)
Orla's least favourite film of the festival was Michel Franco's much lauded New Order. Here's an excerpt from her review:
"Michel Franco's latest provocation, New Order, is a bloodbath of grossly miscalculated 'social commentary'. I've heard it touted as Mexico's Parasite, but the comparisons only go as far as the architecture of the rich families' houses. Bong Joon-ho centred a working class family to tell a multi-layered, slow-burn story of class struggle; Franco is only interested in (or capable of handling) the broadest strokes of what it means to fight against wealth inequality — from the perspective of the rich characters, of course. His interest in the mechanisms of a political uprising goes only so far as it provides him an excuse to depict horrific violence."
Read Orla Smith's full review of New Order
Penguin Bloom (Glendyn Ivin)
Naomi Watts stars in Penguin Bloom, one of the worst films at TIFF 2020. Courtesy of TIFF.
One of Angelo Muredda's least favourite films of TIFF was Penguin Bloom, which he has described as "a disability movie generated entirely by algorithm." Here's an excerpt from his Film Freak Central review:
"Glendyn Ivin's anonymously directed and bone-tired disability melodrama stars Watts (also a producer) as real-life well-to-do Australian mom turned ParaCanoe athlete Sam Bloom, who experiences a life-changing spinal-cord injury after a rooftop railing gives way under her. (As in The Impossible, we see the traumatic injury several times, including in uncanny nightmare sequences that mark the only time either film could be called stylish.) Newly disabled and deflated as she wheels around her spacious home, Sam finds her way back to life–which in Ivin's limited imagination appears to consist of being a good mom even though she might not be able to reach over and put bandaids on her kids' scraped knees like before–by nursing an injured magpie the family dubs Penguin." – Angelo Muredda
Read Angelo's full Penguin Bloom review on Film Freak Central
Angelo Muredda's Disability on Film Series
Check out Angelo Muredda's monthly Disability on Film series on Zoom, in which he facilitates a critical discussion on a film featuring characters with disabilities. This fall, he's focusing on horror films.
You can find out details about the series on Angelo's Twitter account here.
Other TIFF notes
Read Alex Heeney on the 2020 virtual TIFF festival and the disappointments of how it was run.
Read about our favourite performances at TIFF 2020
Read about our favourite films at TIFF 2020
Read all of our TIFF 2020 coverage here
Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Alex Heeney podcast, Angelo Muredda podcast, Orla Smith podcast, podcast, Toronto International Film Festival, Women Directors
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Rosanne Cash Condemns Country Music's Connection to the NRA in 'Times' Op-ed
Amy McCarthy Published: October 4, 2017
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In a blistering op-ed penned for the New York Times in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on Sunday night (Oct. 1), Rosanne Cash condemns country music's longstanding connection to the National Rifle Association. A self-described "gun control activist," Cash specifically calls out the National Rifle Association's NRA Country program.
According to NRA Country's website description, the program seeks to "empower our artist friends who promote these values to encourage our next generation of leaders." At present, major country artists such as Lee Brice, Trace Adkins, Florida Georgia Line and Luke Combs are all affiliated with the organization.
"I encourage more artists in country and American roots music to end your silence," Cash writes. "It is no longer enough to separate yourself quietly. The laws the NRA would pass are a threat to you, your fans, and to the concerts and festivals we enjoy."
Country Stars Respond Following Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting
In her op-ed, Cash also recognizes that artists who do speak out in favor of even minimal restrictions on guns could face "bullying" from gun rights advocates: "Not everyone will like you for taking a stand," she writes; however, she encourages artists to "[l]et it roll off your back."
"Some people may burn your records or ask for refunds for tickets to your concerts," she writes. "Whatever. Find the strength of moral conviction, even if it comes with a price tag, which it will. Don't let them bully you into silence. That's where their power lies — in the silence of rational voices and in the apathy of those who can speak truth to power."
Cash isn't the only country artist calling for reformed gun laws in the aftermath of the shooting, during which 59 festivalgoers were killed and more than 500 were injured. In a post to his Twitter account, Josh Abbott Band guitarist Caleb Keeter told his fans that he was formerly a lifelong opponent of gun control, but after being at the Route 91 Harvest Festival during the shooting, he has experienced a change of heart.
At present, neither the NRA nor NRA Country has issued a response to Cash's editorial.
Remembering the Route 91 Harvest Festival Shooting Victims
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Thomas Fitch Rowland (March 15, 1831 – December 13, 1907) was an American engineer and shipbuilder. In 1861, he founded the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which built ironclad warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War, most notably , which successfully neutralized the threat from the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862.

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Rowland was described as an energetic and inventive leader, who designed many of his own company's machine tools, accumulating more than fifty patents in the course of his lifetime. He also had an interest in philanthropy, and is credited among other things with having pioneered the Saturday half-day holiday in New York for employees. In 1884, he endowed the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for outstanding engineering papers, which is still awarded annually as of 2020.

Life and career

Early life and career

Thomas Fitch Rowland was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on March 15, 1831, the fourth of five children and only son of George and Ruth Caroline (née Attwater) Rowland. His mother died when he was six years old. Rowland was a descendant of Henry M. Rowland of Essex, England, an early settler of Fairfield, Connecticut, and of Thomas Fitch (1699–1774), one of the last colonial governors of the state, whose house was burned down by the British during the American Revolutionary War.

Rowland received a common school education at Lovel's School and the Collegiate Preparatory School in New Haven. At the age of 13, he became the miller's boy in his father's grist mill. He eventually joined the New York and New Haven Railroad, reportedly as its first apprentice, later serving with the company as a fireman and engineer; he is said to have "fired the third passenger train that was sent over the road from New Haven to New York".

In 1850, he took a position as 2nd assistant engineer on Connecticut, a leading steamboat operating between New Haven and New York. Discharged from this position following a change of ownership of the steamboat line, Rowland joined the Allaire Iron Works in 1852, where he worked as a draftsman. During his time with this company, he designed the engines of the steam revenue cutter . According to some sources, he then became general superintendent of the steam engineering works of Henry Esler & Co., but another account states that he joined the Morgan Iron Works.

Continental Iron Works

In 1859, Samuel Sneden, a builder of wood-hulled steamboats in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was offered a contract by a regular customer to build an iron-hulled ship. With no experience in the construction of such vessels, Sneden invited Rowland into partnership in his firm, Samuel Sneden & Co., to assist the yard in making the transition to iron shipbuilding. Rowland accepted, and over the following two years, three iron-hulled vessels were produced by the partnership. In January 1861, however, Sneden & Co. abruptly failed after submitting a low bid for the construction of a large-diameter water mains across the Harlem River. Shortly after, Sneden ceded his yard to Rowland, who pledged to settle the failed company's affairs. Rowland renamed the yard the Continental Iron Works, and the water mains contract would later be completed by the new firm.

American Civil War
 thumb|upright | Launch of  at the Continental Iron Works, January 30, 1862
The establishment of the Continental Works coincided with the outbreak of the American Civil War in April 1861, and later that year, Rowland became associated with New York engineer John Ericsson, who had just secured a contract with the United States Navy for the construction of a radically new type of ironclad warship with low freeboard and a revolving gun turret. Ericsson subcontracted Rowland for construction of the hull, and the new warship, known as , was launched at the Continental Works in just 101 days. When Monitor successfully neutralized the threat from the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862, a "monitor craze" took hold in Washington, with contracts for many more such warships being issued to firms around the nation. The Continental Iron Works would ultimately build seven monitors for the Navy during the war—more than any other company in the country. The Works also built the turrets for an additional three monitors as well as building an iron-hulled gunboat and doing other wartime work for the government. At one point in 1864, Rowland attempted to sell the Continental Works and go into early retirement, but this did not eventuate, and instead he would remain the company's president for most of his life.

During the war, Rowland was widely praised for his energetic and creative leadership. He patented a number of machine tools in this period, including one that reportedly saved the labor of 75 men. A "prolific" inventor, Rowland would file more than fifty patents over the course of his lifetime.

Postwar activities

After the Civil War, a severe and prolonged shipbuilding slump devastated New York's shipbuilding industry, and although the Continental Iron Works continued to build the occasional ship, it diversified into other areas, notably the supply of equipment for the burgeoning gas lighting industry, including the manufacture of gas holders, gas mains and entire gasworks. The company also manufactured its own line of boilers, and became a pioneer in welding technology, producing welded boiler furnaces, gas-illuminated buoys, steel digesters for the wood-pulping industry, and other products. From time to time it also manufactured munitions, notably welded torpedo casings, and depth charge casings during World War I. After this war, the company increasingly focused on the manufacture of gas mains and large welded water pipes. The company was liquidated in 1928, following the retirement of Rowland's son.

Personal details
 thumb|upright=0.6 | Rowland, ca. 1903
In 1855, Thomas F. Rowland married Mary Eliza Bradley, daughter of Charles Bradley of New Haven, Connecticut. The Rowlands had four children: a daughter, Caroline Attwater, who died in infancy, and three sons, Thomas Jr., Charles and George, the first two of whom mentioned following their father into the family business.

Rowland was known for his genial disposition, and was said to be "universally esteemed" during his life; he was further described as a "leading and progressive spirit in the life of the Greenpoint community." He was active as a philanthropist, notably pioneering the practice in New York of granting a half-day holiday to employees on Saturday afternoons, which he extended to his own workforce with no reduction in pay. He also gave generous Christmas bonuses to his employees, ranging from $25 () to $75 () depending on their length of employment. After the Ascension Episcopal Church in Kent Street, Brooklyn, was completed in 1885, Rowland paid the Church's outstanding debt of $15,000 (). On another occasion, when the rector of the Church—whom Rowland had at the time known for only a few months—suffered a prolonged illness, Rowland paid his accumulated medical bills.

Rowland was a vice-president and life member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was one of only nine honorary members in his time of the American Society of Civil Engineers. To the latter organization he endowed an annual prize for exceptional engineering papers, known as the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, which is still awarded today. He was a life member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the American Geographical Society, American Gas Light Association, New Haven Colony Historical Society, Fairfield County Historical Society and New England Society, and an honorary member of the Society of Gas Lighting, Union League Club and American Yacht Club. He was also a trustee of the Webb Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen and the New York Historical Society.

Rowland struggled with illness in his declining years.  He died on December 13, 1907, having only stepped back from the presidency of the Continental Works a few months prior.  He was survived by his wife Mary, and by two of his sons, Thomas Jr. and Charles. His remains were interred in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, in his birthplace of New Haven, Connecticut.

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The Controversy Around Neil Armstrong's Famous Quote
October 23, 2012 Dan Lewis Uncategorized 0
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission crew made its descent to the moon. Neil Armstrong exited the lunar lander and took the first step onto the piece of rock orbiting 225,000 miles above the Earth. As he did, he proclaimed words that will be repeated for time immemorial: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11 mission was a flawless success.
Okay, nearly flawless. There was one notable error: Neil Armstrong flubbed his line.
Armstrong knew that his now-famous quote, which one can listen to here, would become an iconic part of the lore of space exploration, and indeed, humanity. We don't know, exactly, when he came up with the words he intended to use upon landing; what we do know is that that intended to say "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Yes, there's an "a" before "man." From a linguistic approach, the intended statement makes more sense. "Man," without the article "a," is synonymous with "mankind," and therefore, the quote as spoken is apparently contradictory. While Armstrong probably wasn't worried about such things while taking the first steps on the moon, such concerns did come to him upon his return.
Upon returning to Earth and finding that the quote did not have the "a" in it, Armstrong, as reported by the New York Times (pdf), offered a correction and explanation:
When Armstrong saw the quotation [. . .] in the mission transcript after his return to earth, he said it was misquoted, it was reported yesterday [July 30, 1969].
There should have been the article "a" before "man," the astronaut said.
The "a" apparently went unheard and unrecorded in the transmission because of static, a spokesman for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston said in a telephone interview.
(Strangely, if you read the full article linked to above, you'll find that the Times flubbed the "corrected" quote — twice. They have it as a "giant step," not "leap," and then say "makind," not "mankind.")
Yet this attempt to change the course of history — or, at least, of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations — did not succeed. The recording is much clearer than the excuse offered by NASA would allow, and few believed Armstrong's claim that the transcript was incorrect. Over time, Armstrong came around to the truth — the recording and transcript were accurate, and he simply omitted the word accidentally. In 2005, he told James Hansen, the author of a biography of Armstrong titled First Man, "It doesn't sound like there was time for the word ["a"] to be there. So I would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it wasn't said – although it might actually have been."
But even with that, the controversy raged for a few years. In 2006, a hobbyist used off-the-shelf voice editing software and, while reviewing the recording, "[his] audio analysis was able to find the signature of the missing word" per the BBC. (Armstrong briefly held out hope that this test was correct, calling the conclusions "persuasive.") Unfortunately for Armstrong, a 2009 study by a linguistics expert — the "most detailed analysis yet of Neil Armstrong's speech patterns," per another BBC article — concluded that Armstrong proclaimed his walk to be a "small step for man," generally, and not "a small step for a man."
But given that Armstrong had been rocketing through space, awake for 24 hours straight and, by the way, was walking on the moon, we think he deserves a pass, regardless.
Bonus fact: Apollo 12 landed on the moon on November 19, 1969. Its commander, Pete Conrad, became the third person (after Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11) to walk on the moon. Conrad's first words on the moon? Per NASA: "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Conrad spoke that less-than-poetic quip in order to prove to an Italian journalist that NASA did not script Armstrong's (or his) lines. In doing so, Conrad won a $500 bet with the journalist, but he never did collect on his winnings.
From the Archives: Mission to Nowhere: The bonus fact discusses how Neil Armstrong almost missed out on the opportunity to become the first person on the moon.
Related: "First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong" by James Hansen. Four stars on nearly 100 reviews. Available on Kindle.


The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More) is an award handed out annually at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
In 2014, the category was created alongside Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Program (Half-Hour or Less) and Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More). From 2014 to 2017, contemporary and fantasy programs competed together. Fantasy programs compete alongside period programs since 2018.
Totals combined with Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series.
^ "2017-2018 Primetime Emmy Awards Category List" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 5, 2016.
^ "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 14, 2016.


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Reading: Kalogon's smart cushion for wheelchairs keeps the pressure off and brings in $3.3M
CryptoCommunity > Blog > General > Kalogon's smart cushion for wheelchairs keeps the pressure off and brings in $3.3M
Kalogon's smart cushion for wheelchairs keeps the pressure off and brings in $3.3M
Anyone who has to use a wheelchair regularly runs the risk of incurring injury from poor circulation. Kalogon believes it can mitigate this common but potentially life-threatening condition with a smart cushion that prevents any one part of the body from being compressed for too long — and it has already caught the eye of the VA.
Pressure injuries are caused when a part of the body can't get enough blood to it and the tissue starts to die. Most people have experienced the beginnings of it, like something tightening around a finger and cutting off bloodflow, but it's not always so external, painful, or obvious.
"Especially if they have reduced sensation, just about anyone who sits for an extended period is at risk for pressure injuries," said Kalogon founder and CEO Tim Balz.
Certainly the shift to remote work has everyone wondering whether sitting for too long is damaging their body in some way or another. But this goes well beyond a sore back; people who can't stand up and stretch, or feel the pressure or pain that might signal a real problem are at risk of serious harm. Pressure injuries affect millions and lead to the deaths of thousands of people every year.
The solution, in theory, is to reduce the pressure on the various parts of the body that are most affected — essentially the butt, thighs, and tailbone area.
This can be done by the person if they can remember to "offload" by leaning this way for a few minutes to take the pressure off, then do it again on the other side, then forward, etc — and do it constantly. Unsurprisingly, adherence to this kind of self-care is not particularly high.
Getting a sculpted cushion is a step up — you buy an expensive foam one, then have it shaved down or compressed to accommodate the contours of your body. But Balz pointed out that this only really works for a little while — your body changes and the cushion doesn't, so after a month or two you need to customize it again: costly and time consuming.
More recently there have been smart-adjacent cushions made of a pair of interwoven cushions that are filled and deflated in sequence, alternating so that pressure isn't always on one spot. These may be better, but the problem with them is that they still allow pressure to build up in pain points because the area of pressure reduction is small. And as Balz pointed out, "the chance of injury on an IT vs a thigh is like an order of magnitude difference, so it makes no sense to treat them the same."
Kalogon's app for adjusting the cushion's pressure zones.
Kalogon's solution, a cushion called the Orbiter, has five distinct regions, corresponding to the tailbone and left and right thigh and butt areas generally. By keeping four of the five inflated, the user is supported adequately and a whole area is relieved of pressure. Then a few minutes later it slowly shifts that pressure to the next region, and so on.
Here's a diagram of pressure being redistributed from the tailbone region to elsewhere (darker and green means higher pressure:
"When you sit down on it, we have a basic machine learning algorithm that at its default settings does its best to accommodate your body, but you can customize it to fit," Balz said, either using a companion app or with the help of a caregiver or clinician. After setting its normal sequence, the cushion also monitors pressure on the different regions so it can shift differently if the user is leaning forward or to the side for longer than usual (typing, for instance, or dozing).
When the cushion deflates the rear center area, pressure is diverted to the front, allowing better bloodflow to the sacral area.
"By having 5 cells that are independently controllable, we can move one at a time and tune that movement — support the body but drop down one of the cells. If you look a a pressure map, you'll see that the pressure drops below the commonly accepted threshold," he continued.
The whole thing is powered by an battery and pump unit that clips to the wheelchair, and has enough power built in to last for 14-16 hours at default settings (redistributing weight every 3 minutes). Users have complimented the Orbiter as a huge improvement over ordinary or semi-smart cushions. One said it allowed him to sit in his chair without discomfort for four hours, which he hadn't done in years.
You can see it being set up and demonstrated in the video below:
Despite the glowing reviews, it's difficult to prove the efficacy of this type of setup, Balz admitted, because there's just not a lot of clinical data on it yet. While there are generally agreed-on helpful practices like offloading pressure, there isn't some international board of cushion testers that evaluates these things. Though the company has conducted numerous case studies with users, there's no big study saying the cushion reduces risk by some percentage. They can however say that it achieves a similar effect to offloading, which everyone agrees is a good practice.
That said, the VA took a chance on Kalogon in a few cases where there was serious risk or an existing injury and Balz said they have been very happy dozens of deployments. While the results aren't official enough to be published, the fact that the VA is ordering more and working with them on a study using the device indicates confidence.
The cushion launched in February at $2,000 and is classed as a medical device that can be paid for by a variety of means, though it isn't going to be covered by insurance or Medicare or the like just yet. That's in the cards, Balz hopes, but for now they're focusing on the "dozens" of VA centers that are actively recommending Orbiters. Naturally there are many veterans who could use the product, and a VA clinician endorsing it makes it more affordable.
Kalogon just raised $3.3 million in seed funding, led by DeepWork Capital, SeenFundersOrlando and VenVelo, with additional investment from Sawmill Angels. It also collected federal grant money from the U.S. Air Force (make of that what you will). The funding will go towards scaling the company and of course meeting demand.
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The Vostok 2018 exercise by the Russian military is witnessing its biggest military drill by the country in 37 years. Around 300,000 troops and tens of thousands of vehicles, aircraft, and warships are participating along with units from China.
Iran Press/Europe: The exercise kicked off on Tuesday along with a bilateral meeting between Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The meeting looks toward strengthening ties between the two countries amidst US - led sanctions against Russia and a growing US-China trade war.
The exercise is meant to test the capability of the Russian military. To this effect, the drill will include around 300,000 Russian soldiers and officers, including 6,000 airborne troops, over 1,000 warplanes, helicopters and drones, about 36,000 artillery, and 80 combat and support ships. Compared to that, China's participation seems minuscule with only 3,200 troops and 30 aircraft.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the drills were justified given "aggressive and unfriendly" attitudes toward Russia by the NATO block.
The first two days of the drill will see planning and preparation while the actual events will start on Thursday and continue till the last day. The exercise will be spread across five army training grounds, four airbases and areas in the Sea of Japan, the Bering Strait and the Sea of Okhotsk.
NATO spokesperson Dylan White said that the military organization has been briefed about the exercise in May and it would monitor it. "Vostok demonstrates Russia's focus on exercising large-scale conflict. It fits into a pattern we have seen over some time: a more assertive Russia, significantly increasing its defense budget and its military presence."
The three day meeting of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok brought together the leaders of Russia, China, Japan, and South Korea along with 5,000 delegates from 60 countries.


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Genre Forum
Best use of a song in a non musical movie
By Moviebuffer12,
April 1, 2008 in Musicals
Moviebuffer12
Some examples are Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffanys and Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head in Butch Cassidy and the Sundace Kid. But My Favorite moment would be Born To Be Wild from Easy Rider. It Just goes so well with the movie and the backround. What About You?
DTsWereMe
My all time favorite for music in a non-musical was Moonglow/PICNIC Love Theme. I believe Morris Stoloff was nominated for an oscar in that category (music in a non musical production).
LuckyDan
Farrow and Redford dancing to the Victorola, playing Berlin?s What?ll I Do? in *The Great Gatsby* is always a moving scene for me. Berlin is probably my favorite composer when it comes to the standards. No one else I can think of seemed to write so knowingly of lost or unrequited love.
rainingviolets21
Oh ! so many--- AsTime Goes By from Casablanca...and I just saw My Foolish Heart...
the lovely Summertime from the movie of the same name ..and how about Charlie Chaplin and his
Theme from Limelight?
Nando_Morton
(What a great idea for a topic!)
When I read the subject, I immediately thought of 'As Time Goes By' from Casablanca....but then after thinking about it some more, I think my favorite use of a song in a non-musical is Julie Harris as Sally Bowles singing 'I Met Him In A Cafe in Berlin' in "I Am A Camera". (To my mind, Harris really IS 'Sally Bowles'. Christopher Isherwood thought so too, although both 'Chris' and I (not that we've discussed it or anything!) both agree that Liza did a good, 'Americanized' job. But to my mind, what made Sally Bowles so great was her 'Englishness' (and boy, did Julie Harris get the accent down pat!)
Que Sera Sera by doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock's
The Man that knew too Much (1956)
I don't know what it had to do with the movie,
but now I can't get this song out of my head
metsfan
Sammy Davis Jr's "E O 11" in Ocean's Eleven and Sir Lancelot's "Shame and Sorrow" in I Walked With A Zombie. Both songs foreshadowed the plot in each film.
Cris, I think it was used to signify the bond between mother and child. The boy knew that only his mother loved to sing this song and he immediately recognized she was there. It's one of my favorite songs of Doris.
molo14
LocationChumley's Rest
How about these:
Rita Hayworth singing Put the Blame on Mame in *Gilda*
Burl Ives singing Lavender Blue in *So Dear to my Heart*
Barbara Streisand singing As Time Goes By in *What's Up Doc?*
Thanks metsfan
i guess I should watch it again
You're welcome Cris. I was watching an episode of The Doris Day Show and noticed she used "Que sera, sera" in the opening credits. It shows her hugging the kids and having a great time at the park. I guess it stayed with her despite her initial dislike of the song.
debro52
In The Man Who Knew Too Much, the song Que Sera Sera was a song that Doris Day's Character sang to her little boy. He was later kidnapped and taken to a house where Doris visited. She was asked to sing so she sang Que Sarta Sara for a long time and very loudly. She was hoping her son would hear it and he could be rescued.
bijoubelle
Exactly -- Moon River from Bfast at Tiffanys would be my pick.
How eeeevvver, if we were judging musicals, I'd have to say My Lucky Star from Singin' In The Rain even though it didn't make it into the movie.........
brackenhe
I know most folks around here don't really like The Graduate, but at the beginning of that movie, the use of Sounds of Silence is very appropriate as Benjamin travels home, through the airport and then lays on his bed smoking cigarettes so full of ennui that it just sets the tone of the film.
rohanaka
LocationKansas City, MO
Can you ever watch High Noon without coming away singing "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'"??? I know everytime I watch it that song is twanging around in my brain for days...but I mean that in a good way. :-)
movielover7
I really love the theme song from The Way We Were and
another one would have to be the theme from Chariots of Fire when they are running and the song is playing in the background - it just works!
"Tammy's In Love" sung by Debbie Reynolds in *Tammy And The Bachelor*.
MissMusical
Aww you stole mine!
Moon River is such a beautiful song! And Audrey Hepburn singing it just made it even better. I replayed that scene about 12 times when I first saw Breakfast At Tiffany's. I now have it on my iPod. Haha.
The_Ziggy
Stand By Me in Stand By Me
Tiny Dancer in Almost Famous
Put on your sunday clothes from Wall - E (it was really from Hello Dolly!) haha
Ugh!--I saw that movie this past weekend--won't give a commentary on my opinion of the film--but that little robot sure had annoying taste in music! They kept playing it over and over again!! It's been stuck in my head for the last two days--and in this instance--that is not a good thing! :-(
ricky1
I've already posted some of my favorites before but I caught Eddie & The Cruisers (not really a musical) & loved The Dark Side.
Just watched the last 20 minutes of You Can't Take it With You-by the time they got finished playing Polly Wolly Doodle on their harmonicas--all the problems were solved and my toes were a-tappin'! :-)